Alex Kotlowitz to speak at the Affordable Housing Symposium December 9 —
AH905 Rising to the Challenge: Stabilizing Communities in the Wake of Foreclosures

Register On-Site Dec. 6 – 10
DC-Area Training Institute
National Harbor, MD
December 7 - 11, 2009

NR171 Back to the Future: Making History a Tool for Today
Take a tour. Hear from practitioners. Learn about the issues facing the community development field today as you tour the Congress Heights neighborhood and hear from representatives from LISC, HUD and the Development Corporation of Columbia Heights (MD).

News and Updates

Two New Green Courses Designed to Help Communities Go Green
NeighborWorks America, the nation's largest trainer of community development professionals, expanded its curriculum of energy efficiency and healthy homes courses to include two new classes designed to help community leaders engage residents in creating greener communities, and to help non-profit managers improve the green footprint of their organizations.

The new courses, Taking Green Action in Your Community, and Greening Your Organization bring the total number of "Green" courses taught at the upcoming NeighborWorks Training institute to six. In all, NeighborWorks America offers sixteen green courses. The next NeighborWorks Training Institute is December 7-11 in suburban Washington, DC.

"These courses are great additions to our existing offerings, providing important information for non-profit leaders that will help them reduce the carbon footprint of their organizations, and help educate residents on how to ensure that the communities in which they live are healthy and sustainable," said Thomas Deyo, director of green programs at NeighborWorks America.

Greening Your Organization is supplemented by a guide released earlier this year by NeighborWorks America, Greening Your Non-Profit From the Inside Out. Produced in conjunction with Strategic Sustainability Consulting, the 84-page guide contains case studies that non-profit organizations around the country can follow to lower their energy usage and increase the health quality of the places they work and the housing that they build.

"All of the courses and the guide are part of NeighborWorks America's program called, 'Think Green, Act Green,' a commitment to advance environment responsibility across the community development industry," added Deyo. More on this commitment can be found at www.nw/green.